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We learned last week that the Independent Media has decided that it will no longer be subject to the authority of the Press Council and that the company will instead rely on its own internal complaints mechanism. This is a serious blow to media accountability and undermines a system of independent co-regulation in the form […]

R2K notes that Parliament has restarted the process of appointing the Inspector General of Intelligence, the civilian watchdog on South Africa’s state security structures. In the last few days Parliament has re-advertised the position, with a closing date of 28 October 2016. This follows a nearly two year delays in filling this vacancy. It is […]

Today the Right2Know Campaign commemorates Black Wednesday, the day in 1977 when the Apartheid government banned a number of Black Consciousness organisations as well as three publications on the pretext that they were disseminating ‘inflammatory’ material that threatened national security. This commemoration reminds us of the lengths to which paranoid, unaccountable and corrupt states will […]

To mark Black Wednesday, R2K Gauteng will be picketing outside MTN offices tomorrow at 10AM. Black Wednesday is a time for us to reflect on the challenges we face in defending and deepening freedom of expression, which includes media freedom and also the right to receive and impart ideas. As South Africa’s constitutional court has […]

Today Corruption Watch (CW) and the Right2Know (R2K) Campaign have launched an application in the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria. The application asks the court to review and set aside the findings of the Arms Procurement Commission, also known as the Seriti Commission. This follows a relentless struggle by civil society for […]

This article below was published by eNCA: SOUTH AFRICA Wednesday 28 September 2016 – 1:38pm Lobby group Right2Know held a march in three cities on Wednesday to ask advertisers to stop advertising with the SABC. Photo: Twitter.com/@THATlindz JOHANNESBURG – Lobby group Right2Know held a march in three cities on Wednesday to ask advertisers to stop […]

On Wednesday 19th October 1977, the apartheid government arrested, detained and banned activists aligned to Black Consciousness Movement and 18 organisations involved in anti-apartheid activism. Three newspaper publications were also shut down on this day, for similar reasons and some journalists were arrested. Every year we commemorate this day as a Media Freedom Day or […]

On 5 October 2016 the Right2Know Campaign sent the following letter to US Ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, calling for President Obama to pardon whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden: To Ambassador Patrick Gaspard, RE: Call to President Obama to pardon Pvt Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden We write to you as a […]

The Right2Know Campaign has joined the call from civil society for the presidency of South Africa to intervene in the Israeli threat to attack the Women’s Boat to Gaza. The Palestinian Information Centre reported information from the Israeli daily Maariy stating that Israeli naval forces had been instructed to intercept the boat and arrest the […]